Sinclair Community College Relies on Enterasys for Award Winning Secure LAN Project

ANDOVER, MA--(Marketwire - November 27, 2007) - Enterasys Networks Inc., the Secure Networks
Company™, today announced that Sinclair Community College in Dayton,
Ohio --
winner of a Network World magazine 2007 Enterprise All-Star Award for
technology use to enhance their business -- is leveraging secure
convergence, compliance and connectivity solutions from Enterasys for its
Secure LAN Strategy. Through its partnership with Enterasys, Sinclair
Community College delivers reliable and secure voice, video and data
communications to approximately 23,000 students, 2,000 employees and 9,000
networked devices distributed throughout 20 buildings at the main campus in
addition to four remote facilities. The Secure LAN Project has enabled
Sinclair to authenticate users and devices before they are granted access
to the network, then dynamically assign a set of role-based privileges to
ensure only the right people have access to the right information from the
right place at the right time. The transient nature of students and
instructors (along with local businesses and community organizations that
use Sinclair's training facilities) requires flexible, on-demand access to
internal, external and Internet resources while assuring the integrity of
Sinclair's IT infrastructure.

"Users expect the network to be everywhere and available at all times, but
they expect it to be secure as well. Prior to the implementation of our
Secure LAN project, we could only protect the end points on the network
from viruses and worms," said Scott McCollum, Director of IT Services at
Sinclair Community College. "With Enterasys we proactively protect the
network itself from the introduction of unprotected or infected devices.
The technology just works as we prepare for future enrollment increases,
program additions and facilities expansions. The confidence in our
communications infrastructure capabilities is very high in the eyes of our
students, faculty and administration."

"We identify in real-time who enters our network, what devices they are
using and what level of access privileges -- trusted, limited or guest --
they should be granted," stated McCollum. "The Enterasys authentication
and policy control is extended to our non-Enterasys devices -- saving us
precious time, since we do not have to manage and maintain multiple network
policy and directory servers."

Sinclair's 34,000 connected users and devices are supported by an IT
operations team of only 7 people. This is possible because of the
Enterasys NetSight management software automating daily tasks while
pinpointing the source and location of problems. Sinclair worked closely
with Enterasys partner Blue
Spruce Technologies for planning, design and implementation services.

"When we went to deploy VoIP, we were very happy to see that Enterasys
could automatically discover, authenticate, classify, prioritize and secure
the ShoreTel desk phones and
soft-phone clients," McCollum said. "The VoIP users, applications and
devices had a distinct set of privileges even though they might be sharing
the same switch port or laptop with a data-only application. We didn't see
that capability from any other networking vendor we evaluated."

Sinclair Community College is among the largest community college campuses
in America with a single-campus college in downtown Dayton, Ohio, serving
approximately 23,000 students. The College is a member of the board of the
League for Innovation in the
Community College; and its Secure LAN Strategy has won numerous
technology awards which include the 2006 ACUTA
Award for Institutional Excellence in Communications Technology. The
project was a finalist in the 2006 and 2007 Computerworld
Best Practices in Storage Management in the "Securing the Storage
Fortress" category; and Best Practices in Infrastructure Management in the
"Security, Compliance, and Risk Management" category, respectively. Campus
Technology magazine spotlighted Sinclair's Secure LAN Strategy among its 2006
Innovators.

"The primary value for us is the granular visibility and control Enterasys
provides at the edge, distribution and core layers of our network,"
concluded McCollum. "Enterasys support is among the best in the industry
and we are not paying a premium for the embedded security features of their
networking equipment."

About Enterasys Networks

Enterasys Networks -- the Secure Networks Company -- is owned by a private
investor group led by The Gores Group, LLC and Tennenbaum Capital Partners,
LLC. Enterasys' unique Secure Networks solutions secure any network to
ensure the confidentiality, integrity, availability and performance of IT
services and the business users that rely on them. Thousands of leading
companies, government agencies and educational institutions in more than 70
countries rely on Secure Networks solutions to maintain business continuity
and protect vital information. The company's culture is centered on the
principle "There is nothing more important than our customers." Delivering
on that commitment, Secure Networks provides granular, policy-based command
and control of individual user, application, device, port and flow
performance, and security. Enterasys' architectural approach to network
security offers a long technology lifecycle and significant operational and
business benefits, while reducing total cost of ownership. Information
about Enterasys' award-winning policy-enabled switches, routers, wireless
products, security software, and services is available at
www.enterasys.com.

About The Gores Group

Founded in 1987, The Gores Group is a private equity firm focused on
acquiring controlling interests in mature and growing businesses which can
benefit from the firm's operating experience and flexible capital base.
The firm combines the operational expertise and detailed due diligence
capabilities of a strategic buyer with the seasoned M&A team of a
traditional financial buyer. The Gores Group has become a leading
investor, primarily in the technology and telecommunications sectors,
having demonstrated over time a reliable track record of creating
substantial value in its portfolio companies alongside management.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, The Gores Group maintains offices
in Boulder, Colorado and London. For more information, please visit
www.gores.com.

About Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC

Tennenbaum Capital Partners is a Santa Monica, California-based private
investment firm managing over $3.8 billion in assets through private funds.
The firm's investment strategy is grounded in a long-term, value approach,
and it assists -- both financially and operationally -- transitional
middle-market companies in such industries as technology, healthcare,
energy, aerospace, business services, retail and general manufacturing.
Tennenbaum's core strengths include its in-depth knowledge of equity and
debt-financing vehicles in the public and private markets, as well as a
thorough understanding of special situations. For more information, please
visit www.tennenbaumcapital.com.